- Canada: Carney says he has considered possibility of US military action
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has considered the remote possibility of US military action against Canada, according to an interview with The New York Times. Carney told the Times that his administration has carefully examined the ‘extreme tail risk’ scenario where the US takes military action against his country, and had prepared accordingly, without providing further detail. ‘I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk,’ Carney told the Times. ‘That’s just risk management. That’s not a base case, but it would be irresponsible not to’ prepare. Any conflict would likely be highly imbalanced. The US military has more than 2 million active-duty and reserve troops, while Canada has less than 200,000, according to their governments. Similarly, as of 2024, the US possessed 65 military submarines, compared to Canada’s four.” (09/24/26)
- US Navy says eight sailors attempted suicide aboard carrier during prolonged West Asia deployment
Source: mint [India]
“The US Navy has disclosed that eight sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its prolonged deployment, The Hill reported. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao made the disclosure in a letter to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, after she sought information about the well-being of sailors aboard the carrier and accompanying vessels. The revelation comes after families of sailors raised concerns about deteriorating mental health and difficult living conditions during the carrier strike group’s lengthy deployment in West Asia amid the US war with Iran.” (09/24/26)
- Poland: Regime Suspects Fire at Starlink Station Was Act of Sabotage
Source: US News & World Report
“A fire broke out on Wednesday evening at a ground-based Starlink satellite communications station in central Poland providing connectivity for the region, including Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said, adding the systems were now operational. Poland has been on heightened alert for acts of sabotage since Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in 2022. Russia has repeatedly denied any such action.” (09/24/26)
- FBI investigating claim hackers have stolen details of all its agents
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The FBI is investigating a claim by a cyber-crime group that it has stolen sensitive information on all bureau staff – around 38,000 people. The group, Shiny Hunters, says it has every agent’s name, role, badge number and personal details including home address, phone numbers and spouse information. Professor Ciaran Martin, the former head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, said – if confirmed – it was ‘as serious as it gets when it comes to data breaches.’ In a statement posted on X, the FBI said it was aware of the claim and the agency was ‘actively and aggressively investigating the matter’. The criminals claim to have breached the FBI’s servers on Monday night and began contacting reporters on Tuesday sharing samples and screenshots of the stolen data.” (09/24/26)
- ID: “Unknown Wanderer” May Be Linked to 1982 Tylenol Murders
Source: Newser
“The man once known only as the ‘Unknown Wanderer’ in Boise now has a name—and a curious tie to one of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes, CBS News reports. Idaho investigators say the man found dead by cyanide in a Boise church in December 1982 has been identified via DNA as Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski, a chemist with a long-standing obsession with poisons. While authorities aren’t formally tying him to Chicago’s 1982 ‘Tylenol Murders,’ in which seven people were killed by cyanide-laced Tylenol, investigators have revealed evidence that appears to possibly link him to the cold case. He had a history of working in drugstores, and colleagues recalled him having a fascination with carrying out the ‘perfect crime,’ the AP reports.” (09/24/26)
https://www.newser.com/story/396962/unknown-wanderer-may-be-linked-to-1982-tylenol-murders.html
- Oxford English Dictionary adds several words long used in the Caribbean and Bermuda
Source: SFGate
“More than a dozen words long used in Bermuda and across the Caribbean got an official nod on Wednesday from the Oxford English Dictionary. First in line is ‘bimpert’, a Bermudian word of unknown origin that is used to describe a stupid or foolish person. People on the tiny island in the north Atlantic often use it in this traditional phrase: ‘A bimpert is justah wuffless bye’, which roughly translates to: an idiot is just a worthless boy. Another colorful addition is ‘hornerman’, a word used in the eastern Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago since 1975 to describe an unfaithful man or a man having a relationship with someone else’s partner.” (09/23/26)
- Australia: Regime says OpenAI agent hacked website, checks for more breaches
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website. The breach is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the United States, coming on top of several recent breaches globally by rogue AI agents that have alarmed governments and companies. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to the medical statistics portal of Medicare, Australia’s universal health insurance programme, while conducting research on public medical spending.” (09/24/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/australia-pm-albanese-says-openai-204422718.html
- Researchers find elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick. This is the conclusion of a study which interviewed people who live and work alongside the elephants in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya. These particular animals have long intrigued scientists with their extraordinary behaviour – they are known as salt-mining elephants, because they go into caves and scrape the rock with their tusks to extract minerals for their diet. This newly published research suggests that the same elephants use several different plant species in the forest for medicinal purposes.” (09/24/26)
- IL: Johnson proposes 12-month moratorium on new data centers in Chicago
Source: Axios
“Chicago could halt new data center development within city limits for a year. … Mayor Brandon Johnson, along with a group of alders, is pushing for a 12-month moratorium while the city develops a ‘comprehensive regulatory framework’ for data centers. There are 39 active data centers in Chicago, according to the city. … At least a half-dozen major U.S. cities, including Seattle, Charlotte, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Oklahoma City, have temporarily halted or restricted new data center development while considering new regulations.” (09/23/26)
- Italy: Regime approves limits on non-Italian speakers and veils in school classrooms
Source: SFGate
“Italy’s government passed a decree Thursday to place an upper limit on the number of students in each school classroom who have only limited Italian language skills and to ban face-covering Islamic veils in schools. Premier Giorgia Meloni’s conservative government said the package is aimed at strengthening integration through language learning and has drawn support from right-wing allies. Opponents including some educators, unions and opposition parties warn that new rules could force students to attend schools far from their neighborhoods, while critics accuse the government of turning immigration into a political issue. With elections possible as early as next spring, analysts say the measures allow the premier to reassert her credentials on issues central to her conservative base, even though their impact is likely to be limited and significant questions remain about how they would be enforced.” (09/24/26)
- UK: Burnham signals he may lift ban on alcohol in football stands
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Andy Burnham has signalled he may lift the ban on drinking alcohol in the stands at football matches, suggesting it is ‘unfair’ for fans to be singled out when it is permitted for other sports. The prime minister, a committed Everton fan who still attends matches, said there was a case for trialling an end to the ban to bring football in line with rugby and cricket. The move was welcomed by the Football Supporters’ Association and the English Football League, but police warned it would be ‘incredibly rash’ to make changes without considering their impact on safety. Burnham has long opposed the ban, saying it is discriminatory and out of date, harking back to an era when football violence was fuelled by drinking within view of the pitch.” (09/23/26)
- Judge blocks Trump’s White House media ban
Source: Reuters
“A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump on Thursday to restore White House access for journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, saying his ban on the three media outlets was likely unconstitutional. In a major setback for Trump in one of his biggest battles with the media, US District Judge Tim Kelly issued his order in a lawsuit that the news organizations filed contesting the ban that the Republican president announced on September 18. Kelly ordered the Trump administration to immediately return the outlets’ press passes and blocked officials from enforcing the ban for 14 days. The judge rejected the government’s assertion that the ban was motivated by national security concerns.” (09/24/26)
https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-lifts-trumps-white-house-ban-cnn-ms-now-politico-2026-09-24/
- Ukraine: Russian strikes kill 14 after Zelenskyy addresses UN
Source: The Guardian
“At least seven people were killed in a Russian strike on a farm in Kharkiv region, with a further 12 people injured. Two more people were killed in Kyiv, including one in the parking lot of a maternity hospital that was damaged. Eight people were injured. The attack came just hours after Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged international leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the UN general assembly that ‘Russia’s revenues must remain a target.'” (09/24/26)
- Bitcoin slips nearly 2%, extends pullback after rally amid hit to risk sentiment
Source: Investing.com
“Bitcoin slipped on Wednesday, as sentiment for risky assets took a hit from soaring U.S. Treasury yields, a boost to Federal Reserve rate hike expectations, and a rise in oil prices as hopes for diplomatic progress between Washington and Tehran took a hit. After rallying nearly 7% on Monday and peaking above $87.3k to touch its highest level since the end of January, Bitcoin has given back some gains. Still, investors remain upbeat about regulatory proceedings around crypto despite the recent failure of the Clarity Act in clearing Congress. … U.S. Treasury yields surged on Wednesday amid a rise in odds of the Fed delivering a rate hike in October. The moves were driven by hot U.S. economic data.” (09/23/26)
- Israel: Election-rigging panel disqualifies all Arab parties in move likely to be overturned
Source: Times of Israel [Jerusalem]
“The Central Elections Committee voted Wednesday in favor of petitions to disqualify the Joint List slate — made up of Balad, Hadash, and Ta’al — altogether as well as Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party from running in the October 27 election, effectively barring all majority Arab parties from running in the election. The rulings by the panel, made up almost entirely of politicians representing Knesset factions, must be approved by the Supreme Court of Justice, which is expected to strike down the bans, due to the high legal threshold for preventing a political party from running.” (09/23/26)
- Italy: Forty years after Chernobyl, regime greenlights return to nuclear energy
Source: Associated Press
“Italy’s Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to legislation paving the way for a return to nuclear power nearly four decades after the Chernobyl disaster prompted the country to abandon atomic energy. … The bill, which earlier passed the lower Chamber of Deputies, establishes a legal framework for next-generation nuclear technologies. It authorizes the government to draft implementing decrees over the next 12 months covering reactor licensing, safety standards, waste management and criteria for future sites. The vote puts Italy on a path toward reintroducing nuclear power after voters twice rejected it in national referendums, first in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and again following Japan’s Fukushima accident in 2011.” (09/23/26)
https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567
- UK regime to review Chagos Islands deal over lack of US support, Streeting tells BBC
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The UK is reviewing its deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the defence secretary has said. Wes Streeting confirmed the deal was being looked at again after US President Donald Trump called it ‘terrible’ at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. The original agreement would see the UK cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius and pay an average of £101m ($136m) per year to lease back a joint UK-US military base there, prized for its strategic location in the Indian Ocean. In April the deal, agreed under Sir Keir Starmer, was paused indefinitely because Trump pulled his support. Streeting said ‘we have to’ review the deal ‘because the United States doesn’t support it’.” (09/23/26)
- TX: ICE gang member who shot DoorDash drive wasn’t wearing issued bodycam
Source: The News International [Pakistan]
“The ICE [gang member] who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin, Texas, on Sunday had been issued a body camera but was not wearing it at the time, two Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News. According to NBC News, officials said it remains unclear why the [gang member] was not wearing the camera while another ICE [gang member] at the scene had a bodycam that captured part of the incident, but not the shooting itself. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, was shot while working as a DoorDash driver and later [abducted by the ICE gang]. His lawyer said the bullet remains lodged in his back. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked deportation proceedings against Garcés Pérez.” (09/23/26)
- Argentina’s regime takes Falklands claim to UN, questions inaction
Source: United Press International
“Argentine President Javier Milei reaffirmed Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falkland Islands before the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, accusing the international body of failing to enforce its own resolutions amid the exploitation of natural resources in the disputed territory. … Milei recalled that 50 years ago, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 3149, which calls on the parties to refrain from making unilateral changes while the sovereignty dispute remains unresolved. ‘Fifty years later, the situation has not changed, but the unilateral changes continue,’ he said. Milei focused his criticism on the Sea Lion oil project, which is moving toward crude oil production in the North Falkland Basin under British-issued licenses that Argentina considers ‘illegal and illegitimate.'” (09/23/26)
- NY: Weinstein sentenced to 15 years for 2006 sex assault
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday in another #MeToo reckoning for sexually assaulting a former production assistant in 2006. Weinstein, who was at the center of abuse allegations that spurred the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, was resentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley. In 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years for assaulting Haley but his conviction was overturned on appeal in 2024. A jury found him guilty again in 2025 after a retrial in New York.” (09/23/26)
- A Diesel Export Ban Would Ride Home on Every Container Ship
Source: The Erick Erickson Show
by Erick-Woods Erickson“Last year, the coffee beans I buy from Rev Coffee in Smyrna,m GA (the best!!!!) went from about $90 to $160 for a five pound bag of whole beans from Costa Rica. Nothing about the beans changed. President Trump chose to impose tariffs. When President Trump pulled the tariff off coffee, the price went back down, though not all the way down. I think about that bag of coffee every time Washington decides it can repeal the laws of economics. Some people are whispering in the President’s ear to get him to try again. Diesel is averaging a record $6.53 a gallon. This week, the President said, ‘Let’s not send out the diesel’ …. I understand the impulse. Farmers and truckers are getting hammered, and the midterms are six weeks away. It would still be a mistake, and the people who would pay for it are the people it is supposed to help.” (09/24/26)
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/a-diesel-export-ban-would-ride-home
- Trump’s crafty “Commie Week” diplomacy with Mamdani and Xi
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine“First it was New York’s unlovely Mayor Mamdani Trump did the great honor of visiting at Gracie Mansion on Monday. Then on Wednesday the president rolled out the literal red carpet for another Communist dictator, President Xi Jinping of China. Donald Trump and the first lady warmly greeted Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, when they alighted from their plane at Joint Base Andrews and strolled together companionably down the red carpet as a 21-gun salute sounded, followed by the national anthems of both nations. … Despite Trump’s elaborate courtesies toward Xi, he clearly has no illusions about China’s mal-intent as it seeks to dislodge America’s geopolitical primacy.” (09/24/26)
- Time to Retire Slurs
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Alan Cassels“Galileo got called a heretic for suggesting that the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe. Semmelweis was treated like a madman for insisting that doctors wash their hands before attending births. Researchers Barry Marshall and Robin Warren said that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) causes most cases of gastritis and peptic ulcers and people thought they were nutjobs. Those nutjobs eventually revolutionized gastroenterology and won a Nobel Prize in Medicine. In each case, the problem wasn’t the science; it was the people defending consensus like it was holy Scripture, punishing anyone who dared question it. Fast forward to today: the same instinct survives, repackaged in social media posts, think pieces, and snarky tweets.” (09/24/26)
- The UN Is Almost As Useless As Democrats Are
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter“The ‘President’ of Iran spoke at the United Nations General Assembly this week, and I remember thinking to myself, ‘Now would be a pretty good time for an air raid.’ I’m joking, of course, at least mostly. But it is a testament to the worthlessness of the United Nations that a bunch of world leaders who oppress and murder large chunks of their population get to saunter onto some very expensive real estate and complain, without consequence, about the country hosting them. Honestly, if there had been an air raid that leveled that ugly building on the East River, would you miss it? The obvious answer is no, you would not. Rather than bomb it, however, the United States should simply treat it the way the rest of the world does: don’t pay for it, don’t waste our time with it, and mostly involve ourselves as the country that vetoes everything bad.” (09/24/26)
- King Trump’s Press Ban
Source: The Next Move
by Garry Kasparov“In 1776, agents of the Crown could raid a newspaper’s offices for publishing critical commentary about the royal regime. The Stamp Act was imposed to smother America’s nascent free press in the cradle. Authorities in London charged publishers sympathetic to the rebels under Britain’s seditious libel laws. Perhaps the jilted King George can find some relief from beyond the grave. Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution, the colonists—one colonist in particular—are finally coming home to the monarchical tradition.” (09/24/26)
- Another Summit, Same Limits: What to Expect from Trump and Xi in Washington
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen“When President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing this past May, the outcome was largely as anticipated: ceremonial pomp, a handful of commercial commitments, rhetorical emphasis on ‘stability,’ and little progress on the structural frictions that actually define the relationship. Trump invited Xi for a reciprocal state visit, and that visit is now underway. Xi arrived in the Washington area on Wednesday evening for a tightly choreographed program of White House ceremonies, closed-door talks, a state dinner, and a brief National Archives tour before departing Friday. The script remains familiar. The underlying reality is unchanged.” (09/24/26)
- Data Centers and the Liberal State
Source: Law & Liberty
by John O McGinnis“Politics without limits is not the answer to discontent over the technological revolution.” (09/24/26)
- Tariff Exemptions are Big Business for Big Business
Source: The Daily Economy
by David Hebert“A tariff may look like a uniform tax. In practice, exemptions give politically connected firms an advantage.” (09/24/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/tariff-exemptions-are-big-business-for-big-business/
- The $46 Trillion Price of Avoiding Social Security Reform
Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia“Delaying Social Security reform would spare politicians difficult choices today while leaving taxpayers with a much larger bill tomorrow.” (09/24/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-46-trillion-price-of-avoiding-social-security-reform/
- Desperate Republicans are jumping Trump’s Iran war ship
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jack Hunter‘Candidates in tight midterm races are trying to distance themselves from the president and his Middle East mess, citing — you guessed it — the economy.” (09/24/26)
- Judges Reject ICE Attempt to Maintain Third-Country Removals
Source: The American Prospect
by Gillian Brockell“A Peruvian man threatened with removal to the Central African Republic is safe for now after an appeals court reiterated late Wednesday night that its decision last week overturning the Trump administration’s third-country removal policy was effective immediately. But hours after that decision came down, flight data shows an ICE charter jet landed in two known third-country removal ‘host’ countries in Africa, while another appeared to be heading toward the continent, raising the possibility that other immigrants may have been or are about to be removed unlawfully. The Peruvian man, identified in court filings as ‘John Doe,’ has judicial protections from deportation to Peru and has been held in ICE custody in Massachusetts since July, one of his attorneys previously told the Prospect.” (09/24/26)
- Media ban, flying furries: GOP’s midterm messaging is a mess
Source: USA Today
by Rex Huppke“In America right now, the people are shouting, ‘Gas prices! Food prices! Health care costs!’ And the Republican Party, six weeks out from the midterm elections, is responding: ‘What’s that? You want us to fight with the media? Or how about we get mad about this issue nobody has ever heard of because it’s something we made up?’ It’s as if the words ‘read the room’ never entered the GOP’s lexicon.” (09/24/26)
- The President’s Irresponsible Power
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow“If Trump wants the credit, he must also take the blame.” (09/24/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-presidents-irresponsible-power/
- Trump’s lost his star power, at home and abroad
Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jackie Calmes“President Trump might not look smaller, but he is. At home and abroad, among a significant majority of Americans that includes increasing numbers of Republicans, as well as in the eyes of foreign leaders, the president of the United States is shrinking by the day into a hapless peacock, a cartoon figure posting comic word balloons at all hours on the falsely labeled Truth Social network or bloviating for the (fewer and fewer) cameras by day. Consider Trump’s losses and humiliations just over the past week …” (09/24/26)
- A light of learning glows in Gaza
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“This week, thousands of excited children in Gaza took part in a ritual seen as normal in much of the world: going back to school. Instead of being in classrooms with whiteboards and desks, however, most sat on the floor in makeshift structures or tents. School supplies were scarce and costly. Teachers were few. Nearly three years of a war between Hamas and Israel have devastated most school buildings and staff. Nevertheless, to many in Gaza, the fact that the schools even opened was testament to every child’s desire to be inspired, curious, and skilled for a life of progress. An estimated 540,000 children – the most since the war began – returned to in-person schooling. Working together, Gaza’s residents and international aid agencies upheld the ideal of maintaining a decent life for children, in part because they are the most innocent in any war.” (09/23/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0923/A-light-of-learning-glows-in-Gaza
- The Unitary Executive Theory in All of Its Historical Perversity
Source: Washington Monthly
by Jack Rakove“Among the many theories of constitutional interpretation that swirl through American politics, the Unitary Executive Theory (UET) is the most important one circulating today. … To be taken seriously—in an era when the original meaning of the Constitution is the ostensible lodestar of interpretation—a theory of executive power this robust should be strongly grounded in historical sources. In fact, the advocates of the UET presume what they need to prove: that the adopters of the Constitution held a coherent and consensual view of presidential power that could be stretched so far. The more closely one surveys this historical foundation, the more tenuous the theory becomes.” (09/24/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/24/unitary-executive-theory-history/
- The pope tried to ban prediction markets in 1591. It didn’t go well.
Source: Washington Post
by Ryan Chan-Wei“The betting exchanges provide public intelligence. Suppressing them is a policy mistake.” (09/24/26)
- Never Forget Federal Marijuana Frauds
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard“For more than 50 years, the federal government shamelessly pretended that marijuana had no recognized medical use. Last December 18, President Trump signed an executive order entitled, ‘Increasing Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research.’ Trump ordered the Attorney General and the Drug Enforcement Administration to speed up rule-making to finally enable far more medical research on the benefits of marijuana. … Of course, libertarians want to see all federal restrictions on marijuana abolished. The nearly 100-year federal war on the loco weed has been a disgrace and a failure from the start. But the long history of federal persecution of marijuana users, researchers, and growers provides a high-potency kick on the perils of federal intervention to purportedly protect Americans’ health.” (09/23/26)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/09/23/never-forget-federal-marijuana-frauds/
- Individualism Versus Collectivism on November Ballot
Source: American Greatness
by Stu Cvrk“Six years ago, the rise of the ‘Bernie bros’ supporting avowed socialist candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) raised the question of whether decades of soft indoctrination about the ‘horrors’ of capitalism by the Democrat-media complex and the oft-promised but never delivered benefits of socialism had finally produced enough voters willing to elect their way out of free enterprise. Fortunately, that didn’t happen. However, in 2026 the evidence supporting that question is harder to wave away. A self-described democratic socialist now runs City Hall in the nation’s largest city, and a slate of Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidates is on ballots nationwide for Congress, statehouses, and mayor’s offices. The question is no longer academic.” (09/24/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/24/individualism-versus-collectivism-is-on-the-ballot-in-november/
- Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Lars Doucet“Five years ago, LVT was mostly a hypothetical idea people debated on blogs. Today, it has the most legislative momentum it’s seen in decades. Many states introduced bills this year, and Virginia and Kentucky passed land value tax enablement laws in April. These laws allow municipalities to opt into split-rate property taxes, which lower tax rates on buildings and raise them on land. My organization, the Center for Land Economics, maintains a public legislation tracker with an interactive map that makes it easy to keep tabs on these trends.” (09/23/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-years-later
- What can burning a draft card teach us about agentic AI?
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by John Coleman“One morning in the spring of 1966, David O’Brien burned his Selective Service registration card on the steps of a South Boston courthouse. … On the facts, the government’s case was airtight. It was a federal crime to knowingly destroy a draft card. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the justices agreed that some actions can contain both expressive and non-expressive elements. But just because an action might send a message, they reasoned, doesn’t mean it’s protected by the First Amendment. Otherwise, someone robbing a bank to protest capitalism could argue their unlawful conduct is actually constitutionally protected speech. … Nearly sixty years later, the O’Brien framework can help us think about the First Amendment’s intersection with artificial intelligence — a technology that is capable of talking and acting at the same time.” (09/23/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/what-can-burning-draft-card-teach-us-about-agentic-ai
- The Only Cure for a Corrupted Republic
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin“In order to restore our lost American principles, the first step is to understand what’s meant by a ‘corrupted republic.’ Today, the politicians and ‘experts’ across the political spectrum love to treat their power like they’ve been given a ‘living, breathing constitution’ that changes with the times. Of course, they don’t ever mean amending it as spelled out in the text of the document. They mean letting politicians, bureaucrats and judges re-write the rules as they go. Montesquieu warned us: that is the very definition of a corrupted system.” (09/23/26)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/09/23/the-only-cure-for-a-corrupted-republic/
- Make Congress Great Again
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland“President Trump attacked Iran without approval from Congress, as was the Framers’ intent regarding offensive warfare, made plain in the debates at the Constitutional Convention. Trump also violated the War Powers Resolution of 1973 by not withdrawing U.S. forces within 60 to 90 days when Congress hadn’t declared war, given its legal approval or extended the statutory deadline—none of which happened. This is just one more recent example of a hyper-imperial executive thumbing his nose at a quiescent Congress. Yet the Constitution’s Framers intended for Congress, not the executive, to be the dominant branch of government; an independent executive and judiciary were meant to counteract and contain some of this predicted legislative preeminence.” (09/23/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/23/make-congress-great-again/
- The Secret Monopoly Making Everything More Expensive
Source: Washington Monthly
by Carter Dougherty“A proposed settlement would give Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly a free pass, and won’t deliver meaningful relief on swipe fees.” (09/23/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/23/the-secret-monopoly-making-everything-more-expensive/
- Under Capitalism [sic], It’s Legal For Employers To Steal From Employees
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the little guy if you don’t think about it too hard. … A hundred and fifteen million dollars. What do you think would happen to you if you stole $115 million from your employer? Can you imagine that not being treated as a crime? Can you imagine going ‘Haha, ya got me! I’ll return the cash. Can’t blame a guy for trying!’ and then paying a small fine and just going back to your life like it was no big deal? Of course you can’t. You know you’d be arrested, handcuffed, prosecuted for grand larceny, and then spend many years behind bars.” (09/24/26)
- Don’t violate others – problem solved
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal“Why are we forced to pretend not to know the solutions? To pretend solutions are mysterious or too hard? Because government doesn’t benefit from solved problems. It loses power when problems are solved and people no longer beg to be rescued. Often, getting government out of the way is the solution. Crime is a solved problem. To pretend that no one knows how to reduce crime is a lie that only serves the criminals — both freelance and governmental. The solution is to stop criminalizing things everyone has a natural human right to do, including both what they choose to put into their bodies, and defense of person and property with the most effective tools ever invented for the purpose.” (09/23/26)
- Immigrants Aren’t Taking Away Our Healthcare; ICE Is
Source: In These Times
by Ramya Gosike“The cost of healthcare just keeps going up — and millions of Americans are set to lose coverage. Under the GOP’s so-called ’Big Beautiful Bill’, around 17 million people in this country will lose health care thanks to the law’s Medicaid cuts, failure to renew Affordable Care Act subsidies and other changes. Those cuts accelerate after this year’s midterms. Instead, that money is going toward tax cuts for the rich plus record budgets for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Pentagon. Immigrants — including well over 1 million residents who are lawfully present — will be especially hard hit. ” (09/23/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/immigrants-healthcare-ice-medicaid-medicare-snap-cuts-obbb
- An Unbalanced Treatment of the Balance of Payments
Source: Independent Institute
by Edward J López & Jon Murphy“A country’s overall BOP must sum to zero. That is by accounting definition. When domestic buyers send money out to bring imports in (the current account), foreign exporters return money domestically as investment (the capital & financial account). The BOP is a form of double-entry bookkeeping applied to international trade. But it also means that the current account—composed mostly of trade in goods and services—can be in deficit, while the capital & financial account is in surplus.” (09/23/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/23/unbalanced-treatment-balance-of-payments/
- The Dangerous “National Interest”
Source: Cato Institute
by Pierre Lemieux“Politicians, government officials, and foreign policy analysts (especially of the ‘realist’ sort) regularly speak of the ‘national interest.’ The meaning of this expression may seem obvious: It is the public interest when the public considered is composed of the individuals within a ‘nation’ (as opposed to the ‘global public interest’ or a ‘sub-national public interest’). I take ‘nation’ to mean a society of individuals, not simply their state. But in reality, just as with the ‘public interest’ in general, the ‘national interest’ has little scientific or rationally ascertainable meaning.” (Fall 2026)
https://www.cato.org/regulation/fall-2026/dangerous-national-interest
- The Politics of Faking Success
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe“As a politician, Donald Trump has always been almost unmatched in his ability to direct and steer the media in ways that benefit him. Throughout his first term, Trump was excellent at making sudden policy reversals and grand, out-of-the-blue announcements that would leave the legacy media scrambling to keep up and therefore keep news consumers from looking too closely at his actual actions for too long. He would completely make up accomplishments and great political victories and operate as if they were real. … That approach of essentially creating and stoking delusions of success in the minds of voters is not actually a bad strategy for a politician. … But the fact remains that Trump has done very little to improve the material well-being of the American people and quite a lot to worsen it.” (09/23/26)
- Crazy Cultural Commissar Trump
Source: Libertarian Institute
by James Bovard“President Donald Trump signaled that he is entitled to raze the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts if he is not permitted to add his name to the building’s front wall. … The Trump administration’s contortions on this issue almost make Trump’s ravings on the Reflecting Pool seem sane. The Kennedy Center was doing fine financially until Trump took it over at the start of his second term. His behavior is Exhibit A on why culture should be separated from the State. Ironically, aside from his childlike obsession with renaming the Kennedy Center after himself, Trump has made some excellent proposals on federal cultural subsidies.” (09/23/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/crazy-cultural-commissar-trump/
- The Cultural Theory of YIMBY
Source: Law & Liberty
by Gary Winslett“How does anything get built? What are the political precursors to development? Michael Munger has an interesting, and at times persuasive, argument that self-interest combines with particular institutional designs, such as public hearings, to create a prisoner’s dilemma where everyone knows that development is in aggregate desirable but wants that development to be in the next town over. This is, in many ways, the conventional story of NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) politics. That story isn’t wrong per se, but it’s missing a critical component: culture. … I argue that three cultural practices (growth orientation, property rights norms, and positive-sum attitudes) act essentially as gates. If a place fails on any one of them, it is very likely to underbuild. Development will thus, over time, gravitate toward places that can pass all three of these cultural tests.” (09/23/26)
- Liberalism and Civilization
Source: Liberalism.org
by Jason Kuznicki“‘Civilization’ has been an anchor for a host of moral panics, outbursts of violence, and dubious state-aggrandizing schemes. Liberalism’s enemies may say that we can’t have it. And yet we must, and we will. Liberalism isn’t just compatible with civilization. Liberalism offers an understanding of civilization that’s worth wanting and defending.” (09/23/26)
- Put It in Your Own Backyard
Source: EconLog
by Jeff Polet“On a chilly Thursday evening last December, citizens in Dorr, Michigan, a small community about a half-hour south of Grand Rapids, attended a town hall meeting to discuss the possible construction of a data center on the north end of town. Some of the attendees came from families who had lived in Dorr for generations and, worried about the disruptions posed by a new data center, came ready to defend their town. Instead, to their dismay, they discovered the township supervisor had, without a public hearing, already signed an agreement. Microsoft, never bothering to send a representative to meet the public, now held the deed to more than 250 acres of prime farmland, an arrangement citizens knew nothing about until everything was signed and sealed. With the land already sold and the ink dry, the citizens’ impotence turned to repressed rage.” (09/23/26)
- Second Shot at the Second Amendment: Could Heller Be Undone by an Errant Qualifier?
Source: Jonathan Turley Blog
by Jonathan Turley“Many of us are gearing up with columns previewing the Court’s October term and have highlighted the upcoming arguments over bans on AR-15s and semiautomatic weapons out of the Seventh Circuit in Chicago (Viramontes v. Cook County) and the Second Circuit in New York (Grant v. Higgins). In a recent column, Professor Rory Little suggests that these cases will strike at what he considers a glaring flaw in the Heller decision that recognized the individual right under the Second Amendment. Professor Little repeats a common claim about Heller that some of us have challenged. I wanted to briefly address that controversy again.The column appeared in Scotusblog, a respected site that offers tracking and commentary on pending Supreme Court cases.” (09/23/26)
- Radio Atlantic, 09/24/26
Source: The Atlantic
“The ‘Godfather of AI’ on the Chances Humanity Has Left.” (09/24/26)
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/09/what-the-godfather-of-ai-thinks-we-should-do/688748/
- The Lords of War
Source: Quincy Institute/The Intercept
“A new mockumentary from the Quincy Institute and The Intercept takes a closer look at the Lords of War — the weapons-industry executives who are getting rich off of America’s endless wars.” (09/24/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/24/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump’s Rage at CNN Boils Over as Case for Press Ban Starts Collapsing.” (09/24/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/215793/trump-rage-cnn-boils-case-press-ban-starts-collapsing
- Advisory Opinions, 09/24/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Third Time’s the Charm?” (09/24/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/third-times-the-charm/
- The Kyle Anzalone Show, 09/23/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“We bring back Lt.Col. Karen Kwiatkowski to react to the long-awaited 60 Minutes appearance by the rescued Iran shootdown survivor known as ‘Bravo’ and to explain why the interview lands as flat, scripted, and oddly incomplete.” (09/23/26)
- The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen, 09/24/26
Source: The Blessings of Liberty with Jeffrey Rosen
“America’s First Celebrity: The Life of John Dickinson.” (09/24/26)
https://rosenjeffrey.substack.com/p/americas-first-celebrity-the-life
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/23/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Ansar Allah Warns US Against Entering Yemen War, One Killed in Hormuz Ship Attack, and More.” (09/23/26)
- Kibbe on Liberty, episode 405
Source: Free the People
“The Iran War Is a PR Disaster for Republicans | Guest: Joe Kent.” (09/23/26)
- The Briefing Podcast with Michael Waldman, 09/23/26
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
“Are the Midterms for Sale? (with Theodore Schleifer, Kareem Crayton & Dan Weiner).” (09/23/26)
- The Moynihan Report, 09/23/26
Source: The Moynihan Report
“Michael Musto Remembers Everything.” (09/23/26)
https://www.themoynihan.report/p/michael-musto-remembers-everything
- NPR Politics Podcast, 09/23/26
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Trump vs. the media.” (09/23/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/23/nx-s1-5977679/trump-vs-the-media
- LPA Two Hour Lunch Hour, episode 12
Source: LP Alliance
“Join us for our anything goes podcast every Wednesday at noon eastern!” (09/23/26)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/23/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Poll: Most Americans Agree With Massie – Hegseth Must Go!” (09/23/26)
- Rising, 09/23/26
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on conservatives such as Pastor Joel Webbon urging Republicans to embrace socialism.” (09/23/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6089757-rising-september-23-2026/
- Reasonably Optimistic, 09/23/26
Source: Washington Post
“How conservatism went from Reagan to Trump.” (09/23/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/how-conservatism-went-from-reagan-to-trump/
- Reason Interview: Anthony Scaramucci
Source: Reason
‘Anthony Scaramucci discusses how China’s rise, the War on Terror, and the 2008 financial crisis fueled populist anger.” (09/23/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/09/23/anthony-scaramucci-how-america-got-trump/
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Source: The New Republic
“As GOP panic intensifies over Trump’s cratering numbers, a veteran Democratic strategist in North Carolina explains why Trump is so toxic among independents—and why he’s plummeting in red areas too.” (09/23/26)
- The Political Orphanage, 09/23/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
‘Why Childcare Will Always Be Expensive.” (09/23/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/why-childcare-will-always-be-expensive
- The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 09/23/26
Source: The Dispatch
“‘This Is Western Civilization, Bro’ | Interview: Stephanie Slade.” (09/23/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/this-is-western-civilization-bro-interview-stephanie-slade/
- The Good Fight, 09/23/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Shashank Joshi on Why Russia Won’t Invade NATO—Yet.” (09/23/26)